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My work, influenced by literature, investigates the traces we leave behind and the fragile ways in which memory, history, and belief persist in the material world. Through sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing, I explore how objects—fragments of buildings, ashes, tapestries, or ephemeral imprints—become vessels of personal and collective histories, beliefs, and forgotten narratives.

Through my practice, I seek to question how meaning is constructed, how history operates as an instrument of power, how the physical world bears witness to human existence, and how impermanence shapes our understanding of life, death, and belief.

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Essay on a blank page

Unfixed photographs that show a subject trying to write something, but he can't and falls asleep. When the viewer touches the pages, the images are erased and remain in their hands.

Immanent

The drawings are reproductions, created using ashes of corpses, made from illustrations of Laue Diagrams of different minerals that can be found inside the human body.

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Inert Diary

Photo diary, with 365 of my photographs, perforated by a gunshot that creates a new narrative in each one of the pages.
It presents another way of interpreting the images.

Objects woven with threads extracted from books

The process to create these works starts from the action of separating the parts that compose the books to extract the threads and then using them to weave garments, each one from a personal interpretation of the text or material with which one works.

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All That Is Solid Melts into Air

During some time several people gave me charms that had had meaning to them. Carried family memories or religious beliefs. Then I used them to keep a column, fragment of a church that had been destroyed, suspended in the air.

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Show me, for an instant, the color of the eternity

Serie of photographs documenting the action of moving books in the graveyard to photograph the marks they leave on the tombs.

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The Garden of Failure

The piece presents a list of Revolutions, Wars or Resistance movements that were named after flowers.

Recorporation

The piece begins by reproducing, using a chisel and a hammer, the image of the tapestry woven by Juan Manuel Márquez in Presidio Modelo.
The figure is built on the seashore.
I registered the change of the coastal surface intervened during the same time that Juan Manuel Márquez was in prison.

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Give up the Ghost

We used adhesive tape to take the imprint of fragments from abandoned buildings in the city that were awaiting demolition. These strips of tape were then placed on the glass windows of a library that was also waiting to be demolished.

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Binding Gestures

In this series of works, the books are detached from their pages to give way to visual notes that come to occupy the place of the great stories or knowledge that society shares.

Ivan Perera is a contemporary Cuban artist who works with drawing, photography, sculpture, and site-specific. His works, influenced by literature, pose questions about power, faith, death, and the body.

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